Last week’s election shocked the public, newsreaders and pollsters alike as the Conservatives won a majority and three party leaders stepped down. Austerity will again be the buzzword for the next five years but the Tories have made many other promises in the run-up to the election. One is a referendum on the UK’s membership […]
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White & Case has entered into an association with Jakarta-based firm Witara Cakra Advocates (WCA) after ending its relationship with MD & Partners. The previous association ended after two partners left MD & Partners for rival firms. Mita Djajadiredja has joined Baker & McKenzie associated firm Hadiputranto, Hadinoto & Partners within its corporate and securities […]
Bruce Dear, head of London real estate at Eversheds, has commented on British Land Company’s positive results. He said: “UK real estate markets are being powered by multiple macro-economic free gifts; it’s like a beneficent baby shower: low bond yields, low interest rates, vast global cash reserves in search of a stable home and QE-pumped […]
Karanović & Nikolić partners Maja Jovančević-Šetka, Dejan Nikolić and Patricia Gannon attended the recent Serbian Private Equity Association / TMA event on NPL portfolio and distressed asset sales. Attended by over 60 people, the forum addressed the challenges in kick-starting the sell-off of the high number of non-performing loans in Serbia. There is investor interest in acquiring many of these […]
Ogier has advised Taiwan-based insurer Cathay Life on the acquisition of The Walbrook Building in the City of London for a headline price of £575m. The firm’s Jersey team worked alongside Berwin Leighton Paisner in the UK to complete the deal, which is the latest example of the growing presence of Taiwanese investors in UK […]
Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co is one of the UK’s Best Workplaces, according to the Great Place to Work Institute’s annual Best Workplaces list. Taking the 25th spot in the large category (organisations with 500 employees), this is the firm’s 15th year featuring in the list. It is one of only two companies listed since […]
Quisumbing Torres (QT), member firm of Baker & McKenzie International in the Philippines, recently held its 2015 Client Forum entitled ‘Re-drawing the ASEAN Map’, highlighting the key concerns on and reactions to the effects of the ASEAN integration to the business communities within the ASEAN region, particularly in the Philippines. Economic analysts, business leaders, industry […]
Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co’s pensions team has been appointed as main legal adviser to the trustees of the £76,875,000 Fujitsu Pension Scheme. The appointment puts a further pension arrangement operated by the UK subsidiary of Japanese listed-company Fujitsu Ltd under the legal guidance of Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co. Partner Jason Coates led the team, supported […]
Ian Bridge specialises in VAT. He is regularly instructed in substantial cases in an advisory capacity and as an advocate in the tax tribunals. In this judgment he successfully resisted an appeal to the Upper Tier Tribunal against a decision of the First Tier Tribunal to strike out evidence relating to alleged fraud. The judgment is important […]
Ian Bridge of No5 Chambers recently successfully appealed an order for committal. The order by which the appellant was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment was quashed after the Court of Appeal heard submissions that the appellant should have been represented or at least have consented not to be represented. The lack of representation in the […]
Michael Gove is a controversial but heavyweight politician. David Cameron’s decision to put him in charge of the Ministry of Justice shows that he needs a big beast in order to weather the storms over the potential scrapping of the Human Rights Act. Will Gove be a bogeyman for lawyers as much as he is […]